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This Thomas the Tank cake was a pretty easy cake to make. I baked a vanilla cake mix – 2 9-inch pans. The icing was Swiss meringue buttercream (Martha Stewart recipe); takes some time to prepare but it’s delicious, light, and not sugary. Plus, you can make it ahead of time and re whip right … Read more
I used a regular 3 dimensional cake pan and decorated it using the Thomas colours. Then I made the freight cars out of small loaf pans and iced them in grey icing and filled them with various types of candy. I actually got the idea for the track for this Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday … Read more
I used the Thomas the Train cake kit, but you could do it just as easily without it. Using a 1/2 sheet cake, cut section C from the front (6-7″ X 11″). This is the base and should be iced gray. The next section will be the same size (6-7″ X 11″) but will be … Read more
When my son Caleb turned three years old, he requested a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday party. After looking at all of the Thomas cakes on this site, I decided not to try a 3-D train cake this year and instead went with the sheet cake version. I knew that my decorating time would be … Read more
My girlfriend’s daughter was turning 3, and loves Thomas the tank engine, so I volunteered to make the Thomas Cake. It went from a small project, to “how on earth am I going to store and transport this thing” and my personal favourite comment from the hubby “How are you going to top this for … Read more
I made this Thomas The Train Birthday Cake for my nephew’s third birthday this fall. The cake overall looked a little ‘chubbier’ than I would have liked but I figured what the heck? It’s a kid’s cake of a kid’s character, a little extra chubby friendliness never hurt anyone! He was so thrilled about it! … Read more
This is the 3D Thomas train cake from Debbie Brown’s book “Children’s Character cakes”. I started days in advance by making buttercream, edible glue and modeling paste. I coloured the modeling paste and rolled icing in advance as well. I also made the wheels and some of the fiddly bits like the whistles in advance. … Read more
My three year old son is a huge Thomas fan! This really easy train cake idea came from my husband. I baked the cake (one box mix) in three different sized, round dishes: a 9″ round cake pan, a 5″ round dish, and a small custard dish. I stacked these asymmetrically and cut off part … Read more
This Thomas the Train cake was made for my nephews 3rd birthday party. It was a very simple cake. It was a 10-inch cake on the bottom and an 8-inch cake on top. It was HUGE, but it all got eaten.s 3rd birthday party. It was a very simple cake. It was a 10-inch cake … Read more
I was asked to make a birthday cake for a 4 year old who loves trains (especially Thomas and the Polar Express) so I made him the Thomas the tank engine cake. I used a picture from a coloring book for the template. I taped it to a piece of cardboard and then covered that … Read more
This is the Thomas the tank cake I made for my four year olds birthday party. I made it using two 2lb loaf tins and froze the cakes before cutting them for a neater and sharper cut. The face was copied from a model engine my son had and I made slits for the cheeks … Read more
Here is a train birthday cake using the Wilton 3D cake pan as the engine car and three loaf pans as the other cars. I put a cupcake on top of the caboose. It was very easy to do. Just ice the train birthday cake and add candy and Voila!